We started Northwest Noggin as parents in 2012, exploring summer educational opportunities offered by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), “Saturday Academy” and other nonprofits. These programs were prohibitively expensive, and with two kids each and limited income they were not accessible options for either Noggin co-founder at…
Post by Asha Powell-Stormberg, undergraduate in Science pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Asha is a welcome and regular contributor to outreach visits through Northwest Noggin. Noggin @ Ron Russell Middle School I recently joined my fellow Noggin volunteers at Ron Russell Middle School in the David Douglas Public School District…
Post by Kayla McDaniel, undergraduate in Psychology pursuing an Interdisciplinary Neuroscience minor at Portland State University. Kayla is a full-time Research Assistant working in Dr. Miranda Lim’s Sleep & Health Applied Research Program (SHARP) laboratory at the Portland Veteran’s Administration Medical Center and OHSU. “We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe…
Post by Allonté Barakat, an undergraduate Liberal Studies major minoring in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience at Portland State University. Allonté is a computer scientist, voice actor and veteran of the tabletop role playing game (TTRPG) scene, with first-hand knowledge of the power of discovering your voice and the effect that voice can…
We love visiting 6th graders at Portland’s Hosford Middle School, and have done so now for multiple years! Returning again and again, with new students, new volunteers, different weather, different brain specimens and newly crafted pipe cleaner neurons and glia, in pre-pandemic, raging-pandemic and current pandemic conditions – has deepened…
This week our intrepid Northwest Noggin volunteers crossed the mighty Columbia River for an energetic day at Sacajawea Elementary School in Vancouver, Washington to meet with over 400 curious 1st through 5th graders and consider their questions, share research and insights about noggins, craft new neurons and even touch a…
We were thrilled to join Tara Subramaniam from Lincoln High School and Catherine Zhang at the Oregon Episcopal School this fall for the second annual Oregon Youth Neuroscience Conference! Tara and Catherine organized this event at a gorgeously renovated Lincoln High School, inviting Dr. Bonnie Nagel and Dr. Joseph Quinn…
WHAT: NW Noggin @ Sunnyside Environmental School We did it!!! Learning through mistakes! WHERE: Sunnyside Environmental School, 3421 SE Salmon St, Portland, OR 97214 WHEN: Friday, January 20, 9:30am – 12:30pm Contacts: Asa Gervich & Jeremy Thomas, 4th Grade Teachers, Sunnyside School Brains and Skills: Learning through Mistakes! Brains are constantly…
We routinely visit middle schools with noggins and art! Enjoy! A sampling of past visits at the links. A Dive Into Habits Synapses and Seconds in Sisters Is memory physical? Viking, Shark, Fishermen & Bandit Brains! Hosford, Hippocampi & Hope Pandemic connections Dear NW Noggin… Brains examining brains “Tomorrow is…
Get messy! Neuron & Glia Gelatin Prints MAKE YOUR OWN: MAKE Neuron Gelatin Prints(Design by David Shaw, Intel)